Wright v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
339 F.2d 578 · 1964
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably United States v. Eisen (1992), United States v. McCown (1983)
43 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2312
Relies on Carbo v. United States · Downie v. Powers · Ross v. United States · Hisaji Watada v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“counsel's closing argument was based upon a theory of defense which the court rejected, or at least ignored, in its subsequent instructions.... impair[ing] the effectiveness of counsel's argument and hence of appellant's defense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It (is) the court's failure to advise counsel of its ruling prior to closing argument, not the soundness of that ruling, which violated Rule 30 and prejudicially affected counsel's summation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““I am going to give the general instructions. And you go ahead and argue the case any way you want to argue it. And I will instruct the jury as to the law involved in this case.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.